In a city overflowing with coffee shops, Secret stands out by hiding in plain sight. This tiny cafe, tucked away in a courtyard off Saryan Street, turns ordering coffee into a playful ritual of mystery, anonymity and discovery, only to find itself going viral in an age when keeping a secret is nearly impossible.
For more than three decades, the Armenia-Turkey border has been closed but trading continued through indirect routes. Beatriz Arslanian examines Turkey’s decision to authorize direct trade, its economic implications for Armenia, and whether incremental economic ties can help advance long-delayed political normalization.
Using Jorge Luis Borges’ imagined world of Tlön as a lens, Sebouh David Aslanian examines Azerbaijan’s decades-long reinvention of Caucasian Albania, arguing that a fabricated historical narrative has been deployed to appropriate Armenian heritage, erase the region’s Armenian past, and reshape the South Caucasus in the present.
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